>In article <r2bkd85ld4bhfah8oq709ctsrnt6gukvmo@4ax.com>,> Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> wrote:>>> If radioactive decay is random, how are we able to govern the rate of>> decay in a reactor?>> >> We are not similarly able to affect the outcome when flipping 1000>> coins simultaneously and nondeterministically.>>I dare say we could affect the outcome of those coin flippings >statistically, changing the ratio of head to tails a bit for instance, >by suitably controlling the flipping mechanism.

A graph of the number of heads vs. the flipping impulse might becyclic or unchanged as the impulse increases.